A fully funded PhD studentship at Queen’s Belfast is available starting 1 October 2018 on “Chinese Customs Houses and Sino-Western Encounter in the Unequal Treaty Era”. Deadline: Wed 11 April 2018 How to apply Entrance to the old offices, Tengyue (Tengchong), 1909. This studentship is within SPaRK, the Queen’s doctoral training programme funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska Curie scheme. All tuition fees will be paid (including for non-EU students) and students will receive a stipend of £25,576.45 per annum and access to a generous training programme. More information. Applicants must: – satisfy the Marie Skłodowska Curie mobility rule, which…
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Kath Stevenson on the Hart diaries
Read Kath Stevenson’s update on the Hart Project’s transcription of the Hart Diaries.
China Customs Museum visit, 25 September 2017
On Monday 25 September 2017, the Hart Project hosted a visit from the China Customs Museum in Beijing. The visitors included the museum’s Deputy Director General, Fan Kun, and also included the Director of the Exhibitions Department, Dr Li Haiyong. They were accompanied by Consul Li Changhua of the Chinese consulate in Belfast.
China’s Imperial Eye photo book
Aglaia De Angeli and Emma Reisz, China’s Imperial Eye: Photographs of Qing China and Tibet from the Sir Robert Hart Collection, Queen’s University Belfast (Belfast, 2017). Purchase here. The accompanying exhibition of photographs from the Hart Photographic Collection is also on display in The McClay Library, Ground Floor.
Extended PhD application deadline: 11 August 2017
The deadline for the Customs houses PhD studentship, and for all SPaRK applications, has been extended to 11 August 2017. Additionally, the start date has been changed to 1 Jan 2018. Please see the original post for application details.
New Lenses on China Colloquium
New Lenses on China Colloquium: A gathering of leading scholars in the field of the history of photography in China Dr Marine Cabos Cross-posted from Photography of China Between 23 and 24 June 2017, Queen’s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) planned an academic conference gathering international scholars from various disciplines ranging from history, art history, history of photography, to sinology. Entitled New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography, this conference’s successive papers reflected on the impact of photographic sources on our understanding of Chinese history, while assessing the state of the field and considering its future…
PhD studentship starting Jan 2018 [updated]
A fully funded PhD studentship at Queen’s Belfast is available starting 1 January 2018 on “Chinese Customs Houses and Sino-Western Encounter in the Unequal Treaty Era”. Deadline: Friday 11 August 2017 (amended 18 July). Entrance to the old offices, Tengyue (Tengchong), 1909. This studentship is within SPaRK, the Queen’s doctoral training programme funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska Curie scheme. All tuition fees will be paid (including for non-EU students) and students will receive a stipend of £25,576.45 per annum and access to a generous training programme. More information. Applicants must: – satisfy the Marie Skłodowska Curie mobility rule, which…
Mary Tiffen’s 赫德爵士和他的红颜知己 out now
Mary Tiffen’s Friends of Sir Robert Hart is now available in Chinese as 中国岁月:赫德爵士和他的红颜知己. The Chinese edition is published by Guangxi Normal University Press in their series 海关洋员传记丛书.
Robert Hart on Flickr
Robert Hart was fascinated by photography and communications. So it is only fitting that you can now find Sir Robert Hart on Flickr. The Flickr selection includes this delightful 1907 snap of Robert Hart with his band, along with over a hundred other photographs from late 19th and early 20th century China. These are just a small selection from the full Robert Hart photography collection, which includes over 2,000 images.